Wire Warrior

I'll drink to that!

Jason

When I want a "borderless" appearance for a VI I use a transparent background. Have you checked out this document http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-1086#comment-5644 in the NI Developer community?

Jason

SWEET!

Just think of how much LabVIEW awesome that means LAVA has!

Jason

Can you share the answer you found?

Jason

Okay this brings up a question I was having the other day. I can see how the treat read-only VI's as locked would solve this problem but how are you setting the VI's to read-only when you emplace them? We use VIPM to distribute our reuse libraries but I see no way to set them to read only on import. I have considered generating a VI that could be run post install of the VI package that would set the VI's properties to read only. Is there a better way that I am missing?

Thanks

Jason

Okay....Here's another me too on the upload problem. Was trying to upload a snippet from the code capture tool. File size 18 kB, png image. I tried on Firefox 3.16 and IE8. I figured I was doing something wrong on my reply until I saw this thread.

Jason

I don't know the answer to the Windows OS installer exception question. I would like to as well. I do wonder though why you need the individual users install the software on the machines? It seems like your IT folks want to control the installs/uninstalls of the programs on the machines. Why not let them manage the installs? That's the structure they've set up.

Sometimes the easiest way to get a rule changed is to follow it.

Jason

Hello All,

Seeing that one version works and one doesn't and one major difference is the change from the "Run in UI Thread" to "Run in Any Thread". I don't understand why that would make the difference?

Jason

Maybe you could use a packed library instead of a dll. If you are looking to do like something we have been talking about around here, your goal is to encapsulate a specific sub-set of the code that can be easily swapped out/upgraded when necessary. We were looking at a method for plug-in distribution, yours seems to be machine dependent code. We are thinking that a packed library will be able to do what we sought. Still haven't "tried it" though.

jason

All,

The company I work for, BEI Precision System & Space Co., is looking to hire a Test Engineer II. Yes this is a 2nd job posting. You can find the the posting on our website by clicking HERE. You can also contact me for more information.

Here's the posted information:

Position Title: Test Engineer II

Job Description

Arkansas' finest aerospace company has the opportunity for students to learn from and support its engineering staff. This staff is involved in the design, manufacture and test of high-precision sensors and subsystems for spacecraft, military craft, astronomical observatories, and scientific laboratories. Participants will be expected to draw upon their knowledge of mathematics, physics, optics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or instrumentation science as necessary to solve problems in a business environment.

Basic Qualifications

Must be a US citizen with the completion of a 4 year collegiate program in or related to one of the following areas: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science along with at least 3 years of applicable experience and three years of LabView experience in the last five years. LabVIEW RT and Lab VIEW FPGA a plus.

All,

The company I work for, BEI Precision System & Space Co., is looking to hire a Test Engineer. You can find the the posting on our website by clicking HERE. You can also contact me for more information.

Here's the posted information:

Position Title: Test Engineer

Job Description

Arkansas' finest aerospace company has the opportunity for students to learn from and support its engineering staff. This staff is involved in the design, manufacture and test of high-precision sensors and subsystems for spacecraft, military craft, astronomical observatories, and scientific laboratories. Participants will be expected to draw upon their knowledge of mathematics, physics, optics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or instrumentation science as necessary to solve problems in a business environment.

Basic Qualifications

Must be a US citizen with the completion of a 4 year collegiate program in or related to one of the following areas: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science along with at least 3 years of applicable experience Familiarity with databases, test instrumentation and LabView a plus.

Thanks,

Jason Willis

That is an example for LabWindows CVI 7.1

Sorry about that. I should have looked more closely at the example I posted. It's obviously not the one I was looking for. Thanks for pointing that out Fabiola.

Jason

So....what your saying is "There is no spoon?"

Jason

I built a system on a sbRIO (basically a unpackaged cRIO) earlier this year that used a state machine no problem. Matter of I used a modified version of the JKI state machine for the basis for the code. Not having a front panel meant some of the open close VI code was not needed.

Based on my experiences you should have no issues building a state machine based architecture on an RT system.

Jason

I'm just excited I got to put faces with names of so many of the people from the board. Of course meeting the Fabulous Fabiola was one of the highlights of my week.

I was disappointed that crelf never wore a bow tie all week. Sigh....I guess we just can't have it all.

Jason

LabVIEW has most of the functions you need to do this build right in though sometimes the hard part is finding the VI you need. This is a link to a page of functions that specifically support the type of signal analysis you are needing to do. Combine this with one basic signal analysis demos that NI ships with LabVIEW and you will be up and running in no time at all.

Good luck with your project.

Jason

Okay I knew I remembered seeing an example of this. If you look in the NI Developer Zone there is a LV7.1 example for how to do the very thing your asking about. Here is the link to the Example Program. I bet this will really go a long way to answering your questions.

Jason

We stayed at the Hilton this year. It was right across from the convention center which made travel easy. The biggest downside was the fact that internet access costs $15 a day. Still all in all it was okay.

There is also a Marriott Courtyard nearby as well.

Jason

I'll be there staying at the Hilton. It's my first NI Week and I am excited!

Jason

Okay....being one of those developers who don't know about such things.....What is a VI tag? All the references I could find on the NI site were for HTML tags.

Thanks

Jason

At a quick glance I would approach this by developing a hardware abstraction layer for the two cards that presented identical data and command structures to the rest of the program. If you do that then you can develop a single set of code for your application. Check out the tutorial http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3271on Developing LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Drivers for more info.

Jason

If you want to check out a really versatile state machine design, look at the JKI state machine template found at http://www.jkisoft.com/state-machine/. I really like this template and there are videos, tutorials, and examples that explain its operation.

Jason

(seriously - this year's theme is green - even the "LAVA Member" lanyard ribbons are green )

And how does on get one of these special "LAVA Member" lanyards?

Jason

I notice that you have a time out set for 5 minutes. Are you saying that the VI will wait for 5 minutes and block everything or that it will never return from the Wait For Next Event.

Jason

The closest thing I have had for this with a virtual machine is that I did not have the VM set to access the internet through the hardware computers ethernet card. Once I allowed access everything was fine.

jason